Forthcoming Exhibitions and Publications in Europe & Asia
Year Ahead 2024

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Hélène Delprat. MONSTER SOUP
Hauser & Wirth Paris
20 January – 9 March 2024

Hélène Delprat’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth following the announcement of the gallery’s representation in collaboration with Christophe Gaillard Gallery will open in Paris. Organised with Olivier Renaud-Clément, the exhibition will include a selection of new large-scale paintings alongside sculpture, video and installation works across both floors of the space.

Over the past four decades, Delprat’s multifaceted practice has engaged the human condition as its focus, exploring life and death in an oeuvre that spans various mediums. After finding success for her distinctively primitive style of painting between 1985 and 1995 following her Villa Medici residency in Rome, Delprat turned her focus to video, theater, interviews, installations and projects for radio, whilst continuing to paint. Since the late aughts, the artist’s painting practice has been shaped by an encyclopaedic research process that encompasses a remarkable archive of sources. Delprat’s works, together, comprise a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history.

Zhang Enli. Faces
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong
24 January – 9 March 2024

Titled ‘Faces’, the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s new location in Hong Kong will feature new paintings by Zhang Enli created in the past three decades. The nearly 100 works on view include figurative paintings from the 1990s to early 2000s and the artist’s everyday objects series from the 2000s to early 2010s, along with abstract works from the early 2010s until the present day. These gestural canvases reflect Zhang Enli’s progression to looser, freer brushwork that has become prominent in the artist’s style in recent years and reveals the artist’s compelling and continued exploration into abstract form. While anchored in figuration with descriptive titles, Zhang Enli seeks to capture the ‘essence’ of his subjects rather than their physical representation through these works. His solo exhibition at the Long Museum, Shanghai opens on 7 November 2023.

Zhang Enli first gained acclaim in the 1990s for symbolic, figurative paintings. Within these early works, the perspective was often skewed to heighten the drama of the object’s shape, or to enlarge its symbolic importance. Zhang Enli has frequently returned to a personal iconography centred on the more prosaic aspects of contemporary life, drawn to imagery of quotidian objects that are sensitively rendered and imbued with stories. In more recent years, the artist has turned to the outside world, urban dwellings and nature, blurring the boundaries between inside and out. In a series of installations, known as Space Paintings, Zhang Enli paints directly onto the walls of a room to create immersive environments. These range from the abstract, where colour and gesture recall sights and sounds of a particular place, to more figurative reproductions.

Present Tense
Hauser & Wirth Somerset
27 January – 28 April 2024

‘Present Tense’ will spotlight the next generation of artists living and working in the UK, from emerging to mid-career, celebrating a breadth of creative talent and socially engaged practices. The multifaceted group presentation will consist of 23 contemporary artists outside of the Hauser & Wirth roster, testing the boundaries of their mediums to address and confront notions of identity, consciousness, humanity and representation. Through their individual lens, each artist is responding to the cultural climate of the UK right now, depicting a range of lived experiences that co- exist and connect within the rich fabric of the same location.

Featuring Lydia Blakeley, Sholto Blissett, Victoria Cantons, Emanuel de Carvalho, Shawanda Corbett, Vanessa Garwood, Ania Hobson, Clementine Keith-Roach, Sang Woo Kim, Christina Kimeze, Francesca Mollett, Christopher Page, Daisy Parris, Paloma Proudfoot, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, George Rouy, Antonia Showering, Ebun Sodipo, Ella Walker, Shaqúelle Whyte, Gray Wielebinski and Joseph Yaeger.

The exhibition is in collaboration with Arcadia Missa, Ben Hunter, Casey Kaplan, Corvi-Mora, Gathering, GRIMM Gallery, Hannah Barry Gallery, Niru Ratnam, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Project Native Informant, Sim Smith and Timothy Taylor Gallery.

As an extension of Hauser & Wirth’s Learning philosophy, the gallery has a long history of impactful collaborations with guest artists and curators, public institutions and wider commercial galleries across our global locations. An extended events and learning program will run alongside the exhibition, engaging with key themes addressed within the galleries and facilitating points of intersection between the artists’ practice and our audiences.

Uman
Hauser & Wirth London
30 January – 1 April 2024

Uman’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth following the announcement of the gallery’s representation of the artist in equal partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery, NY will open in London. Uman’s ebullient visual vocabulary reflects her expansive cross-cultural experiences. Born in Somalia and raised in Kenya, she emigrated to Denmark as a teenager and later to New York as a young adult. Now living and working in upstate New York, Uman paints lavishly detailed, opulently colored worlds replete with gesture, geometry and evocations of the sublime. While these works are executed primarily with oil paint, she also combines acrylic paint, oil stick and collage techniques.

An intuitive artist and voracious autodidact, Uman draws upon her memories of her East African childhood, rigorous education in traditional Arabic calligraphy, deep engagement with dreams and fascination with kaleidoscopic color and design. With nods to self-portraiture and fictional topographies, Uman’s paintings fluidly navigate in-between realms to explore both the physical and spiritual, intertwining abstraction, figuration, meditative patterning and a reverence for the natural world.

Cathy Josefowitz. Release
Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse
1 February – 17 May 2024

In her quest to represent the body as an expressive vehicle of individual experience, New York-born, Swiss-raised artist Cathy Josefowitz (1956 – 2014) created a wide-ranging oeuvre spanning drawing and painting, performance and dance. The breadth of her creative output will be on view in a solo exhibition—Josefowitz’s first in Zurich— focusing on her compelling progression of the figure across four decades, from the 1970s to her later shift towards abstraction, with many works shown for the first time. The presentation takes its title from Josefowitz’s choreographic piece ‘Release’ (1988), a performance replete with fluid movements projected on the wall of the gallery. The artist takes the feeling of liberation to a whole new meaning, finding freedom in her dance and in her paintings.

On view are Josefowitz’s oils on cardboard and gouaches on paper from the 1970s in which the artist plays with traditional depictions of the reclining nude through a female lens. Later paintings on canvas and watercolours on receipts from the early 1990s reveal a new way of working with the figure through a shift in pattern, style, colour and form. The figurative realm soon gave way to increasing abstraction, releasing the body from literal depictions. Josefowitz’s Prayers series (1998-2001) depicts prayer shawls and mats that often came to represent family members, whilst the Venus series (2004-2006) places the motif of the cloth in dialogue with tropes of womanhood from art history. In surveying the development of Josefowitz’s visual language, this exhibition attests to the artist’s enduring determination to depict the figure in both its anatomical and metaphysical dimensions.

Takesada Matsutani
Hauser & Wirth Paris
30 March – 19 May 2024

Takesada Matsutani, the Ōsaka-born artist who has lived and worked in Paris for the past 60 years, has developed a unique visual language of form and materials over five decades. From the early 1960s until the 1970s, Matsutani was a key member of the influential post-war Japanese art collective the Gutai Art Association. As part of the Gutai group, Matsutani experimented with vinyl glue using fans and his own breath to manipulate the substance, creating bulbous and sensuous forms reminiscent of human curves and features. This exhibition, organised with Olivier Renaud-Clement, will feature a selection of new and historic works by the artist, showcasing the breadth of his career and development of his practice.

Glenn Ligon
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong
Opening March 2024

In March, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong, Hauser & Wirth will present American conceptual artist Glenn Ligon’s first solo exhibition in Greater China. Over the past three and half decades, Ligon has explored American history, society, and literature to pose incisive questions about race and identity. His art demonstrates the ways in which a given subject permeates culture over time, magnetizing our attention to the mutability of images, ideas, and language, as well as our perceptions of them. Best known for his landmark text paintings, which incorporate the writings of important cultural figures such as James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Pryor, Ligon has continued to expand his practice to include films, drawings, prints, photographs and neon sculptures.

Paul McCarthy
Hauser & Wirth London
9 May – 27 July 2024

Paul McCarthy is widely considered to be one of the most influential and ground-breaking contemporary American artists. This exhibition will focus on new works by McCarthy accompanied by screenings of recent film works by the artist. Born in 1945 and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he first established a multi-faceted artistic practice which sought to break the limitations of painting by using unorthodox materials such as bodily fluids and food. He has since become known for visceral, often hauntingly humorous work in a variety of mediums—from performance, photography, film and video to sculpture, drawing and painting.

During the 1990s, he extended his practice into installations and stand-alone sculptural figures, utilizing a range of materials such as fiberglass, silicone, animatronics and inflatable vinyl. Playing on popular illusions and cultural myths, fantasy and reality collide in a delirious yet poignant exploration of the subconscious in works that simultaneously challenge the viewer’s phenomenological expectations.

Whether absent or present, the human figure has been a constant in his work, either through the artist’s own performances or the array of characters he creates to mix high and low culture and provoke an analysis of our fundamental beliefs. These playfully oversized characters and objects critique the worlds from which they are drawn: Hollywood, politics, philosophy, science, art, literature and television. McCarthy’s work, thus, locates the traumas lurking behind the stage set of the American Dream and identifies their counterparts in the art historical canon.

Roni Horn
Hauser & Wirth Menorca
11 May – 27 October 2024

Using drawing, photography, installation, sculpture and literature, Roni Horn’s practice consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure in her work. For her first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Menorca, opening in May, the renowned New York-based artist presents work in diverse media that continues to address her longstanding interest in the protean nature of identity, meaning and perception.

Eduardo Chillida
Hauser & Wirth Menorca
11 May – 27 October 2024

On the centenary of his birth, Hauser & Wirth Menorca presents a solo exhibition by Eduardo Chillida, one of the most influential Spanish artists of the 20th Century. Chillida had a strong connection with Menorca, where he worked and spent many summers with his family. The exhibition in Menorca will highlight the artist’s pioneering practice, which encompassed monumental public works as well as sculptures, drawings, collages and prints. Working in diverse media such as iron, steel, stone, alabaster and chamotte clay, Chillida’s practice draws inspiration from his surrounding nature and pays tribute to the organic and elemental forces that lie at the very core of existence.

The exhibition is part of the programme ‘Eduardo Chillida 100 years’, led by the Eduardo Chillida - Pilar Belzunce Foundation, that commemorates the artist’s life and work.

Phyllida Barlow
Curated by Frances Morris
Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Opening Saturday 25 May 2024

The work of Phyllida Barlow (1944 – 2023) will take over Hauser & Wirth Somerset in a celebration of the British artist’s transformative approach to sculpture, marking the 10th anniversary of the arts centre that was inaugurated by Barlow’s solo exhibition ‘GIG’. The landmark exhibition is curated by Frances Morris and draws on her close working relationship with the artist during her lifetime. The presentation will explore the evolution of Barlow’s formal and expressive vocabulary, bringing together objects and installations, studio maquettes and drawings from across her extensive career, many of which will be on public view for the first time.

Frances Morris comments: ‘Over the last ten years, Phyllida Barlow kept her fans and followers on the edge of their seats as she brought new and ever more audacious projects to life in venues across the world. Unfolding as a running commentary on the tragedies and absurdities of our time, each work formed part of an ongoing and intensely experimental investigation into the techniques and materials of art making, seeking visual equivalents to her own personal experience of living and looking.’

Over a career that spanned six decades, Phyllida Barlow took inspiration from her surroundings to create imposing installations that can be at once menacing and playful. Barlow’s restless invented forms stretch the limits of mass, volume and height as they block, straddle and balance precariously. The audience is challenged into a new relationship with the sculptural object, the gallery environment and the world beyond. Barlow exhibited extensively across institutions internationally, including: Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2023); Public Art Fund, New York (2023); Chillida Leku, Hernani (2023); Sprengel Museum, Hanover (2022); ARTIST ROOMS, Tate Modern, London (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); The Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019); La Biennale di Venezia, British Pavilion, Venice (2017); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2016); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015); Duveen Commission at Tate Britain, London (2014). Barlow was awarded the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung’s 2022 Kurt Schwitters Prize.

Nicole Eisenman
Hauser & Wirth Paris
5 June – 22 September 2024

For Nicole Eisenman’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Paris, the artist will celebrate the medium of sculpture, which has been an integral aspect of the artist’s practice over the last decade. Having established herself as a central figure in American painting throughout the 1990s, Eisenman has since expanded her practice into the third dimension with international acclaim. This show brings together a diverse multidisciplinary language comprised of sculpture, two-dimensional work from the sculpture studio and paintings that relate to sculpture.

Nicole Eisenman lives and works in Brooklyn NY. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. Her work was included in the 2019 Venice Biennale, 2019 Whitney Biennial and 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster in Münster, Germany. Most recently, the solo exhibition ‘Nicole Eisenman: What Happened’ was displayed at Museum Brandhorst, Munich in 2023, at Whitechapel Gallery in London until 14 January 2024, traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in April 2024.

Philip Guston
Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse
Opening June 2024

Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) is one of the great luminaries of 20th-century art. His commitment to producing work from genuine emotion and lived experience ensures its enduring impact. Guston’s legendary career spanned half century from 1930 to 1980. His paintings—particularly the liberated and instinctual forms of his late work—continue to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of contemporary painters. ‘Philip Guston’ at the Tate Modern is on view until 25 February 2024.

Larry Bell: Works from the 1970s
Hauser & Wirth Monaco
Opening June 2024

Larry Bell first came to attention as part of the light and space movement in Los Angeles in the 1960s. This exhibition will focus on his architecturally-scaled works from the 1970s, highlighting Bell’s historic contribution to pared down aesthetics that can be allied to minimalism. The large scale works in this show are among his most ambitious early works and follow a rigorous, radical and austere economy of means.

The exhibition will consist of four large-scale glass sculptures from the early 1970s, along with ‘Moving Ways’, a monumental late-1970s wall work. A group of additional, smaller-scale 1970s works will be included. To signal and compliment the exhibition, a more recent, highly coloured glass work will be installed outside the gallery. The rare, museum-quality works that will be shown are primarily from the Panza Collection and another Italian private collection. Such works, including ‘Untitled’ (1970), were featured in an important exhibition of Bell’s early work at Marlborough in Rome in 1974, from which it was acquired by the present collection.

Open Through 2024

Gerhard Richter: Engadin
Nietzsche-Haus, Sils; Segantini Museum, St. Moritz; and Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz
16 December 2023 – 13 April 2024

Gerhard Richter, born in 1932, is one of the most important and celebrated artists of our time. His works can be found in international collections and have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. Richter first vacationed in the Swiss Alpine village Sils, located in the Upper Engadin region, in 1989 and has regularly visited the location during both summer and winter holidays for over 25 years. Presented across three venues in the Upper Engadin—Nietzsche-Haus in Sils and the Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz—‘Gerhard Richter: Engadin’ is the first exhibition to explore Richter’s deep connection with the Alpine valley landscape. More than 70 works from museums and private collections—including paintings, overpainted photographs, drawings and objects—are testament to the artist’s fascination with the Upper Engadin valley.

The work connecting the three exhibition venues is a steel sphere that Richter had produced as an edition, on view at each site. He first presented it at Nietzsche-Haus in 1992 in an exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Each unique sphere bears the name of a mountain in the Upper Engadin. The matte, subtly reflective, almost surreal sphere delicately reflects all that surrounds it. It symbolises the sublime yet inhospitable manifestations of nature, which are especially conspicuous in the mountains.

Mark Bradford. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Hauser & Wirth Monaco
Until end of April 2024

Hauser & Wirth Monaco presents Mark Bradford’s ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen’, a major new solo exhibition centered around a selection of paintings based on the historical tapestries known as ‘The Hunt of the Unicorn,’ first exhibited at the Fundação de Serralves in 2021. A site-specific wall painting wraps the entire gallery space and an adaptation of ‘He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes’ (2019) completes an immersive experience that draws the viewer into Bradford’s ongoing engagement with the themes of predation, destruction and the hope of rejuvenation for those in crisis.

Hauser & Wirth Publishers in 2024

Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ forthcoming program for the first half of 2024 features eight new titles. Highlights include ‘Gerhard Richter: Engadin,’ which delves into the artist’s deep relationship with the Engadin region in the Swiss Alps. This publication coincides with an exhibition at the Nietzsche-Haus, Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz, and features an essay by curator Dieter Schwarz. An anthology of Glenn Ligon’s writings and interviews will also be released, which serves as a new sourcebook on the artist’s views on contemporary art, culture, and his own and others’ work, in addition to ‘Mark Bradford: Process Collettivo,’ a tribute to Bradford’s work with the Process Collettivo association during the 2017 Venice Biennale, which will be launched at next year’s Biennale in April. ‘Eva Hesse: Curators Reflect on Their Exhibitions,’ edited by Barry Rosen, accompanies a major exhibition on the artist at Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street, offering a historical overview of her significant institutional shows.

Additional highlights include ‘Nonmemory,’ edited by curator Jay Ezra Nayssan, a catalogue produced on the occasion of the eponymous 2023 exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, focusing on works by Mike Kelley alongside other artists; an English translation of Angela Thomas’ second volume of the Max Bill biography; an intimate book on Dieter Roth’s life by his wife, Sigrídur Björnsdóttir; and a publication on Nicole Eisenman’s installation ‘Maker’s Muck,’ for which the artist invited various authors to contribute with essays and reflections on the artwork.

Press Contacts:

Alice Haguenauer, Hauser & Wirth London/Paris/Monaco
alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com

Laura Cook, Hauser & Wirth Somerset
lauracook@hauserwirth.com

Maddy Martin, Hauser & Wirth Zurich/St. Moritz
maddymartin@hauserwirth.com

Kristin Brüggemann, Hauser & Wirth Zurich/Publishers

kristinbrueggemann@hauserwirth.com

Marta Coll, Hauser & Wirth Menorca
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Tara Liang, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong
tara@hauserwirth.com

^{Captions and courtesy}

^{Monster soup. Image by Hélène Delprat. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Hélène Delprat, Adapg, Paris. Source image: William Heath, Hand-coloured etching, 1828. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.}

^{Zhang Enli. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Alexander}

^{Zhang Enli, Melon Farmers, 2023, Oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm / 78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in © Zhang Enli. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: JJYPHOTO}

^{Ania Hobson, Let the Land Speak, 2023, 210 x 190 cm, Oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Ania Hobson}

^{Clementine Keith-Roach, New Mourning II, 2022, Jesmonite, wood and steel armature, 60 x 115 x 105 cm / 23 5/8 x 45 1/4 x 41 3/8 in. Courtesy the artist and Ben Hunter, London. Photo: Damian Griffiths}

^{Uman in the studio, 2023 © Uman. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Photo: Luigi Cazzaniga}

^{Uman, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas, 96 x 96 in © Uman. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery}

^{Cathy Josefowitz, D‘après I‘Olympia de Manet, 2004 – 2005, Oil and pastel on canvas, 194 x 158.8 x 2.7 cm / 76 3/8 x 62 1/2 x 1 1/8 in © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz. Courtesy Estate of Cathy Josefowitz and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter}

^{Cathy Josefowitz, Untitled, ca. 1974, Oil on cardboard, 96.3 x 68 cm / 37 7/8 x 26 3/4 in © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz. Courtesy Estate of Cathy Josefowitz and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Flavio Karrer}

^{Glenn Ligon. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Paul Mpagi Sepuya}

^{Eduardo Chillida working on Lurra M-35 - Homenaje a Bach at his workshop in Menorca © Zabalaga Leku. San Sebastián, VEGAP, 2023. Courtesy of the Estate of Eduardo Chillida and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Hans Spinner}

^{Gerhard Richter, St. Moritz, 1992, Oil on canvas, 72 x 102 cm / 28 3/8 x 40 1/8 in © Gerhard Richter 2023. Private Collection, Switzerland}

^{Mark Bradford, The Hunters Return to the Castle, 2020, Mixed media on canvas, 368.5 x 390.5 x 5.2 cm / 145 1/8 x 153 3/4 x 2 in © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich}

^{Interior view of Hauser & Wirth Publishers Headquarters and Bookshop, Zurich, Switzerland. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Publishers. Photo: Sim Canetty Clarke}

^{Interior view of Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street featuring ‘Crack Between the Floorboards’ (2014) by Mark Bradford © Mark Bradford. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Kyle Knodell}

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